Irene C. Fountas

Gay Su Pinnell

Intended for K-3 classroom teachers, explains how to create a balanced literacy program based on guided reading and supported by reading aloud, shared reading, interactive writing, and other approaches.

Good First Teaching for All Children

Guided Reading

A printed, bound version of the official Fountas & Pinnell leveled book list, sorted by title and by level.

The Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Book List K-8

Use The Continuum of Literacy Learning and The Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library DVD companion series, to deepen your understanding of the continua and how to use them as assessment and planning tools. These videos will hone your ability to observe the behaviors of your own readers and writers, and help sharpen your thinking about how your teaching can match your students' needs as they become more proficient in the use of literacy and language. The User Guide is designed to help you navigate theThe Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library and deepen your understanding of how to use the Continuum as an assessment and planning tool. By following the suggestions for viewing and discussing the video segments you will hone your ability to observe the behaviors of your readers and writers. Specific viewing suggestions for individuals, small groups, and staff developers are identified throughout the User Guide to help customize your learning experience. Armed with The Continuum of Literacy Learning and The Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library DVD companion series, both from Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas, every teacher will have the tools and techniques they need to guide assessment, activate responsive teaching, and support students on their literacy and language journey. Content Coverage in the Language Arts Curriculum The behaviors presented in each of the continua of learning serve as the basis for both the Continuum book and the Continuum DVD library. Using these two resources together, individuals, small groups, and staff developers will have the opportunity to study and observe student behaviors and the appropriate teaching that supports students in increasing their ability across the language arts curriculum. Save with a Teaching Library Bundle or a Staff Development Bundle.

Professional Development Teaching Collection: Grades PreK-2

The Continuum of Literacy Learning Teaching Library

This title is a comprehensive volume that focuses on genre study through inquiry-based learning with an emphasis on reading comprehension and the craft of writing. In exploring genre study, Fountas and Pinnell advocate a way of thinking and learning where students are actively engaged in the thinking process.

Teaching with Fiction and Nonfiction Books : Grades K-8 +

Genre Study

Carol A. Lyons

Systems for Change offers specificand, quite often, uniquesuggestions for planning and implementing a literacy professional development course.

A Guide to Professional Development

Systems for Change in Literacy Education

This reference provides a comprehensive, up-to-date levelled reading list. Created with the input of hundreds of early literacy teachers, it compiles more than 7000 caption books, natural language texts, series books, and children's literature for kindergarten through grade three.

Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3

Matching Books to Readers

Andrea McCarrier

Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers.

How Language and Literacy Come Together, K-2

Interactive Writing

Irene Fountas

Now aligned to the Expanded Edition of The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum! Play and language are critical learning tools for the prekindergarten child. Through play and language, they learn about their world and about themselves. Play and language are also the most important tools for early literacy learning. Think of the young child who takes a memo pad and marker around to family members, "taking orders" for dinner. Like all emergent readers and writers, this child makes no distinction between play and literacy-both involve curiosity, excitement, learning, and discovery. In Literacy Beginnings, Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell bring their characteristically rich, comprehensive, and practical insights to the frontier of early literacy. They show you how to tap into young children's curiosity to introduce them to the world of literacy in joyful, engaging ways.

A Prekindergarten Handbook

Literacy Beginnings

A practical guide for teaching comprehension and fluency in the kindergarten through eighth-grade classroom with instruction on reading levels, writing about reading, and interactive read-aloud and literature study; and contains a DVD with over 100 blackline masters, forms, and checklists.

Thinking, Talking, and Writing about Reading, K-8

Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency

Includes more than 6000 leveled books - cover.

Leveled Books for Readers, Grades 3-6

Diane E. DeFord

Classroom teachers discuss connections made between teaching and children's use of reading and writing in learning.

Learning from Reading Recovery

Bridges to Literacy

Presents a comprehensive curriculum document that provides a vision of language and literacy development for students in kindergarten through grade 8. The book contains the same text characteristics and goals as the K-2 and 3-8 books but instead is organized along the following instructional contexts: interactive read-aloud and literature discussion; shared and performance reading; writing about reading; writing; oral, visual, and technological communication; phonics, spelling, and word study; and guided reading.

Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach, and Support

The Continuum of Literacy Learning, Grades K-8

Much has been written on the topic of guided reading over the last twenty years, but no other leaders in literacy education have championed the topic with such depth and breadth as Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell. In the highly anticipated second edition of Guided Reading, Fountas and Pinnell remind you of guided reading's critical value within a comprehensive literacy system, and the reflective, responsive teaching required to realize its full potential. Now with Guided Reading, Second Edition, (re)discover the essential elements of guided reading through: a wider and more comprehensive look at its place within a coherent literacy system a refined and deeper understanding of its complexity an examination of the steps in implementation-from observing and assessing literacy behaviors, to grouping in a thoughtful and dynamic way, to analyzing texts, to teaching the lesson the teaching for systems of strategic actions a rich text base that can support and extend student learning the re-emerging role of shared reading as a way to lead guided and independent reading forward the development of managed independent learning across the grades an in-depth exploration of responsive teaching the role of facilitative language in supporting change over time in students' processing systems the identification of high-priority shifts in learning to focus on at each text level the creation of a learning environment within which literacy and language can flourish. Through guided reading, students learn how to engage in every facet of the reading process and apply their reading power to all literacy contexts. Also check out our new on-demand mini-course: Introducing Texts Effectively in Guided Reading Lessons

Responsive Teaching Across the Grades

Patricia L. Scharer

By working together to write within authentic contexts, children behave as writers and learn about the writing process scaffolded by their teacher in ways that ensure success.

The New Essentials

Guiding K-3 Writers to Independence

Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary. Grade 3

Word Study Lessons

A complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades with 100 Minilessons for Kindergarten.

Teaching Resources Grade 3

A Complete Phonics and Word Study Curriculum for each of the primary grades With 100 minilessons for each of the three grade levels, you can use the month-by-month planning guide, the assessment checklists, and the lesson selection map to choose the lessons that align with your student's needs and the Word Study Continuum. The Continuum encompasses nine scientific categories of learning: · Early Literacy Concepts · High-Frequency Words · Phonological and Phonemic Awareness · Spelling Patterns · Letter Knowledge · Word Structure · Letter/Sound Relationships · Word-Solving Actions · Word Meaning Each 4-page lesson includes: 1. Professional Understandings Explanations of underlying principles research, and suggestions for working with English Language Learners. 2. 3-part Lesson plan · Teach Step by step instructions for implementing the lesson · Apply Application activities and routines for teaching them · Share Guidelines for reinforcing principles and helping children share their learning 3. Follow-up Assessment links to literacy framework, extensions, and home connections.

Letters, Words, and How They Work - Grade 2

Phonics Lessons

Fresh new cover, same great content! In 1996, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas presented Guided Reading, the most comprehensive guided reading resource ever published. Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs of the whole classroom as well as individual readers. Now, with the publication of Word Matters, Pinnell and Fountas offer K-3 teachers the same unparalleled support, this time focusing on phonics and spelling instruction. Word Matters presents essential information on designing and implementing a high-quality, systematic literacy program to help children learn about letters, sounds, and words. The central goal is to teach children to become "word solvers": readers who can take words apart while reading for meaning, and writers who can construct words while writing to communicate. Where similar books are narrow in focus, Word Matters presents the theoretical underpinnings and practical wherewithal of word study in three contexts: word study that includes systematically planned and applied experiences focusing on the elements of letters and words writing, including how children use phoneme-grapheme relationships, word patterns, and principles to develop spelling ability reading, including teaching children how to solve words with the use of phonics and visual-analysis skills as they read for meaning. Each topic is supported with a variety of practical tools: reproducible sheets for a word study system and for writing workshop; lists of spelling minilessons; and extensive word lists, including frequently used words, antonyms, synonyms, and more. Armed with these tools-and the tried-and-true wisdom of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas-teachers can help students develop not just the "essential skills," but also a joyful appreciation of their own literacy.

Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom

Word Matters

Fountas & Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) is a powerful early intervention system that can change the path of a student's journey to literacy. The LLI Orange System is specifically targeted at Foundation/Kindergaten students. Please note the program guide is not suitable for educators who have not yet purchased an LLI Orange System. This component is only available separately so that schools with the LLI Orange System can purchase additional copies of the program guide if they require. Find out more about the Fountas & Pinnell LLI System at www.pearson.com.au/primary/LLI

Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) Orange (Grade K) Program Guide

Discusses the use of leveled texts in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms, examines the "text base" needed for effective language literacy instruction, provides guidelines for creating a high-quality leveled book collection and matching books to readers, and explains how to analyze and level books.

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